Drive Systems Kit

Item Number:

ES11 - Experiment

Drive Systems Kit (ES11) demonstrates the advantages and disadvantages of three popular drive systems: belt, chain and a universal coupling, using a manually rotated frame with a low friction cantilever linkage, adjustable masses and a spring to apply force.

This kit includes three drive systems showing their relative advantages and disadvantages. The kit includes extra parts to help show the importance of the angle of lap around a pulley and its relationship with friction.

The kit introduces students to key engineering terms such as gear ratio, pulley ratio and efficiency.

Students test a universal coupling, a belt drive and a chain drive to see how they work and how they differ in the way they transfer motion (power).

This versatile kit is part of a series that allows many experiments using different arrangements of their parts. Students, teachers or lecturers fit the parts of the kit to the Work Panel (ES1) (supplied separately) to study or show an engineering science topic.

TecQuipment supplies a CD-ROM with the Work Panel (ES1). It includes all the worksheets, guidance notes and lecturer notes (with answers) needed for typical experiments with each kit. The selection of parts in the kits and the choice of fixing points on the Work Panel means that teachers or lecturers may extend the experiments to an even greater range.

For this kit we currently have worksheets available for:

Drive Systems (ES11 and ES13):

Chain Drive
Belt Drive
Spur Gears

Learning Outcomes

Power transfer, efficiency and direction in a belt drive
Power transfer and efficiency in a chain drive
Input and output relationships of a universal coupling
Friction and angle of lap on a pulley

Key Features

One of a series of 18 kits for experiments in fundamental engineering science topics
For use on any engineering course from foundation to postgraduate
Flexible and modular, each kit fits onto the work panel (ES1) for experiments and classroom demonstrations
Supplied in a hard-wearing storage tray with a molded insert to hold parts securely and a graphical list to help check the kit contents
Rugged and durable parts for safe ‘hands-on’ experiments, allowing better understanding
Contains all parts needed for experiments with three popular drive systems